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Picklez:
Looking good, you got to love a bit of read & black.  :popcorn:

Midschoolfool:
Yup. I'm just happy that I am using up all the crap I spent money on tbh. It's all just crap I had bought for other things over a four year period and then didn't use.

So tonight I discovered my frame is actually missing decals. I didn't even realise.



I wondered what the very light shadow in the paint was from. Balls. OK, go order some right? haha no chance. OK so find the logo and do my own? yeah, no chance of that either. They use the logo still alright, on the bloody boxes. Every other one is different ffs. So it really was as laborious as taking a screen grab of the bloody box on a YT video.



And then spending about two hours drawing it.



I will convert it to Vector before I put it together as one decal. Well, two. Going to die cut that on the plotter. The logo will need a outline but that can be cut from black and assembled. Have ordered some vinyl.  I got the stand up there and turned it over. Remaining stuff needs it stood up properly (when the parts come).











That's the only bike I have ever put those bars on and actually liked them. So there's that. Mind you cutting them has made them look much better too, I am just not a big fan of 4pc.

Midschoolfool:
Pah. Drawn a postman blank today. Not much I can do, apart from go up and measure what size my decals need to be. I ordered this last night. They pop up periodically on Ebay.



Gyro cover. Never used one before, but the colour and price was right. Plus it's a shit gyro  :LolLolLolLol:

Midschoolfool:
OK measured up how big the decals need to be. Then put them in scale. I made sure they would fit on the plotter.



Then I realised I had white vinyl left over from the Fatboy. I used it to back the decals. First attempt....



Looks wicked. F, it's wrong  :LolLolLolLol: So the second run I made sure to have the image open on the screen, as it was the last piece.



And..



Don't have any black, but that's the hard bit done. Other won't go to waste, will stick it on the tool box.

Midschoolfool:
Derp. Realised that because they are die cut it would actually be easier to fit the writing first.



If you look very closely under the right light you can see where the logo goes.



So other side done.



Money shot.

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